Visiprise, Inc., a recognized leader in helping
manufacturers manage and control global operations to improve quality and
compliance, announced today the company has achieved "Powered by SAP
NetWeaver(tm)" certification for Visiprise Manufacturing 3.2 and become a
"Powered by SAP NetWeaver" partner of SAP AG. This further strengthens the
previously announced collaborative development effort with SAP announced in
March. 

This new certification advances the collaborative development effort between
the two companies to bring to market turnkey business software for targeted
manufacturing industries. Visiprise intends to offer integrated solutions
that combine real-time manufacturing performance management data with
Visiprise''s manufacturing platform, delivering user information through the
manufacturing intelligence dashboard of the mySAP(tm) ERP solution.

"Achieving ''Powered by SAP NetWeaver'' certification is an important step in
our process to create the tightest end-to-end solution between SAP?/DIV>
solutions and the shop floor for our customers," said Carter Johnson, vice
president of strategy and business development at Visiprise.  "The new
certified integration allows users to monitor embedded key performance
indicators in the SAP manufacturing intelligence dashboard, giving deeper
visibility into shop-floor activities."

The certification enables Visiprise customers to leverage the SAP
manufacturing intelligence dashboard. Benefits of this include:
* Improved visibility to both plant information and enterprise
information from a single source, plus the ability to access both SAP
solutions and Visiprise through a single system sign-on.
* Customized information dashboards that deliver seamless
integration between Visiprise Manufacturing and the SAP manufacturing
intelligence dashboard. Customers can configure these dashboards to their
specific needs to deliver actionable intelligence from the plant floor to
production personnel in the form of alerts, key performance indicators
(KPIs), tasks and reports, enabling them to deliver superior performance.
Alerts, KPIs and workflows from Visiprise appear as iView software within
the SAP manufacturing intelligence dashboard.
* Reduced cost of ownership by allowing the application to run
within the SAP Web Application Server as opposed to a separate environment
(certified for J2EE-DEP 6.40). 

Leveraging the power of the SAP NetWeaver platform to integrate disparate
technologies using preconfigured business content, users of Visiprise
Manufacturing will be able to greatly reduce the amount of time and custom
integration needed to implement a global manufacturing platform. As a
result, users will be able to take advantage of critical plant-floor and
enterprise information, providing unparalleled visibility across the global
manufacturing enterprise from start to finish.

In May of this year Visiprise Manufacturing earned "Certified for SAP
NetWeaver" status.